WASHINGTON The possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will soon eliminate federal subsidies for people buying health insurance through the Affordable Care Act is the biggest story in politics and economics that no one wants to talk about. But the...

IRBIL, Iraq U.S. commanders pressing for an attack on Mosul perhaps as early as this spring may be underestimating the importance of the city to its Islamic State occupiers, who are likely to put up a huge fight to retain their control, experts who've...

When the U.S. State Department announced new rules for products that independent Cuban entrepreneurs could sell in the United States, it published a broad list detailing of what things they couldn't sell. That left many people scratching their heads...

WASHINGTON An old adage says the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. President Barack Obama is proposing a new twist: accelerated taxes on retirement savings AFTER death.
Obama wants to change the way the government taxes 401(k)...

Thirty-five-year-old Abdalmalik Wahab had been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for nearly 14 years without charge when he got some good news: The U.S. government was no longer interested in holding him.
A panel made up of representatives of six government agencies, including the Defense Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, determined on Dec. 5 that Abdalmalik was "almost certainly" a member of al-Qaida at one point but it was no longer worth keeping him at the U.S. base in...

Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen testifies before Congress this week with the Federal Reserve facing its gravest political threat since the drafters of the Dodd-Frank act tried to strip it of its supervisory powers.
The Fed is being pressured from the left and the right. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and other Democrats have blasted the central bank for being too cozy with the banks it oversees. Republicans, including potential 2016 presidential contender Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, have...

The new Reinvent Hampton Roads aims to change the region's economic development culture, a project leader told the new Hampton Roads Regional Council on Feb. 13.
"I was right there with everybody else saying, 'Here we go again. Is this going to work?'" said Bob Boyd, the representative from the Hampton Roads Economic Development Alliance to the council. "In my 20 years, this is the most excited I've ever been for the opportunity for us to make real headway."
Basically, the Hampton Roads Community...

It was, the mayor of San Francisco said, a "shocking start" to the year for a city amid a technology boom with soaring rents and construction cranes, fashionable restaurants and gentrifying neighborhoods.
In January, four young men sitting in a stolen car were gunned down in a trendy neighborhood near City Hall. Ten days later, a mother was shot dead outside her home in front of her three children. In another, a blood-spattered woman staggered into a restaurant seeking help for bullet wounds, and a man...

Remember the Knee Defender? The devious device that clips on to the airline seat in front of you to prevent that passenger from reclining and encroaching on your legroom? Thanks to some high-profile incidents involving hostile passengers and flight diversions last year, there was concern that wider use of the device would usher in a new era of air rage. But new FAA data shows that the preliminary number of "unruly passenger incidents" in 2014 was the lowest since the agency began tracking those figures in...